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Trauma Foundations and Core Concepts Tim Fletcher Co. Trauma Foundations and Core Concepts Tim Fletcher Co.

The Need to Please: Fawning to Survive

If you're the person everyone relies on to keep things easy while your own needs quietly disappear, this course looks at why. It explores fawning, the fourth trauma response after fight, flight, and freeze, and how Complex Trauma can teach a child that pleasing people is the only way to stay safe. You'll learn to recognize your own patterns of appeasing, merging, and self-erasure, and start the slow work of turning attention back toward yourself.

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Relationships and Connection Tim Fletcher Co. Relationships and Connection Tim Fletcher Co.

Trust Issues: Why It’s So Hard to Let People In

If closeness feels less like relief and more like risk, this course looks at why trust can be so hard to give. It traces trust issues back to their roots in Complex Trauma, including relational betrayal, gaslighting, and the lies a child can absorb about love and worth. You'll learn to recognize the stages distrust moves through and build a gradual, evidence-based way to let safe people back in.

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Trauma Foundations and Core Concepts Tim Fletcher Co. Trauma Foundations and Core Concepts Tim Fletcher Co.

Never Good Enough: Perfectionism + Complex Trauma

If nothing you do ever feels good enough, this course looks at what perfectionism is often really protecting you from. It traces the pattern back to shame and Complex Trauma, showing how striving for flawless can become a prison of false guilt, comparison, and hidden struggle. You'll learn to tell perfectionism apart from healthy effort and build a gentler, more human standard to live by.

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Relationships and Connection Tim Fletcher Co. Relationships and Connection Tim Fletcher Co.

Abandonment + Complex Trauma: Why Am I So Afraid They’ll Leave?

If closeness always seems to come with the fear that it will end, this course looks at what may be underneath that dread. It traces the fear of abandonment back to a real wound in Complex Trauma, including early attachment injuries and the shame that says you are not enough to make someone stay. You'll learn to recognize the patterns that can push people away without meaning to, and build a steadier, more trusting way to stay connected, to others and to yourself.

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Trauma Foundations and Core Concepts Tim Fletcher Co. Trauma Foundations and Core Concepts Tim Fletcher Co.

The Need For Control: Why Letting Go Feels Unsafe

If you feel like you can never fully relax because someone has to keep everything on track, this course looks at what usually sits underneath that drive. It traces the need for control back to its roots in Complex Trauma, including shame, broken trust, and old fear, and shows why managing the outside world so rarely calms what is happening inside. You'll come away with a clearer understanding of the pattern and practical ways to build trust and inner steadiness in its place.

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Trauma Foundations and Core Concepts Shannon Vanderlinde Trauma Foundations and Core Concepts Shannon Vanderlinde

Humiliation Trauma: When Shame Attacks Identity

Humiliation Trauma: When Shame Attacks Identity

Designed for those who want to understand the roots of shame and begin loosening its hold, this course examines humiliation trauma and how repeated experiences of being shamed, mocked, or diminished become internalized as identity. You’ll explore the connection between humiliation and shame, the development of the inner critic, and how these patterns shape self-perception, relationships, and behavior.

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Here’s what our clients say.

I can honestly say that Lift has completely changed my life. When I started Lift I didn’t even know who I was as I wore masks my entire life … My relationships are currently better than I could have ever dreamed of.”

L.E. Lift Live Online Learning Alumnus

Amazing! Life transforming! Thank you so much! Thank you for this wonderful roadmap to finally learning how to provide my needs and heal my complex trauma. I’m overjoyed with gratitude. Truly transformational!”

J.O. Align With Your Needs Participant

Great course. I feel a strange sense of contentment as I work through it. Also, the feeling that someone finally understands me after years of being unsuccessful with therapy is hard to describe - it gives me hope…”

D.R. Foundations Participant: Introduction to the 12 Basic Needs

For the first time in my life, I found a community where I didn’t feel different, alone, or on the outside looking in. This program changed me and I am incredibly grateful.”

Anonymous Lift Live Online Learning Alumnus

It took me almost 6 months before I could convince myself to spend the money on this course … I can now admit it was a small investment in the future I can look forward to. If you don’t take action, nothing will change.”

K.M. Align With Your Needs Participant

Priceless! I have been searching for answers for as long as I can remember. This is the start of another path in my journey. Thanks for putting together such thoughtful and invaluable resources.”

T.C. Foundations Participant: Grief and Complex Trauma

Before I started I had no idea how to pinpoint my core beliefs, issues and thought patterns. It’s really helped me grow and given me tools to keep growing. This is what I’ve needed my whole life, and I’m so thankful.”

C.J. Lift Live Online Learning Alumnus

It was very healing for me to begin reparenting myself by working on the 12 Basic Needs I didn’t receive as a child.”

S.W. Align With Your Needs Participant

Everyone needs this course. I realize how deep my inner critic has eaten into the fabric of my soul. I got so much clarity and resources for healing through this course. Thank you so much Tim Fletcher and team.”

L.G. Foundations Participant: Quieting the Inner Critic

I felt heard. I will recommend to others. This is the missing puzzle piece in my healing journey.”

S.G. Lift Live Online Learning Alumnus

I’ve been watching Tim’s videos for a couple of years. I had worked through many things before starting … but I was stuck on some. Through this course I have made progress and will make more. It’s working.”

M.K. Align With Your Needs Participant

Finally, answers! This is a wonderful resource to help me to fully understand how my scapegoating abuse from a toxic family caused such profound angst within me. With understanding, I now have tools for healing.”

W.E. Foundations Participant: Loneliness: A Guide to Belonging Course

Must-have information for every human-being. This experience reignited the joy of life within me. I feel loved.”

E.L. Lift Live Online Learning Alumnus

This course taught me so much. I am a little sad for the little girl inside me and have more compassion for myself and others.”

N.C. Align With Your Needs Participant

What I’ve been looking for. There are plenty of resources to help you understand your issues, but I’ve really struggled finding anything that says, ‘What do I do next?’ This is the information you need to start down the path of feeling better about you.”

J.P. Foundations Participant: Running on Empty Course

This program has really opened my eyes. I still have a lot of work to do, but I now have a lot more awareness and the resources I need to continue healing.”

K.W. Lift Live Online Learning Alumnus

Amazing. I feel so much healing from this.”

R.S. Align With God Participant

Life changing … It’s so full of gems. I’ve recovered a lot through the techniques in this course. It’s extremely resourceful and also shares a bunch of resources at the end which is very generous. Forever grateful.”

R.S. Foundations Participant: The Inner Child and Me

Absolutely life changing in every way. I cannot convey my gratitude, respect and admiration enough.”

A.B. Lift Live Online Learning Alumnus

This was a real eye-opener, but even more importantly, it gives you steps to start the healing process. The bonus resources section at the end is worth its weight in gold!”

J.P. Foundations Participant: Burnout and Complex Trauma Course

This course may be harder than I originally thought but it is what I need right now. It is also filling gaps I wasn’t able to grasp during Lift participation. I gained more than what I expected. I am so glad I completed this course.”

M.R. Align With God Participant

100% highly recommended! I really loved the system and how it presents deep topics in such a clear, digestible, and empathetic way. I also appreciate the resources provided to go deeper and continue working on key points.”

Y.R. Foundations Participant: Introduction to the 12 Basic Needs

This course is excellent. I haven’t read anything quite like this material before, and it out words to my experience so I could begin to grieve what happened.”

C.R. Foundations Participant: Humiliation Trauma

This was helpful for me to understand the basics and has answered a lot of questions related to some of the underlying issues I have been living with.”

A.H. Foundations Participant: Introduction to the 12 Basic Needs

Love and compassion.. I so appreciate this course as it gives voice to long buried feelings so they can be processed and healed one day at a time.”

W.E. Foundations Participant: Grief and Complex Trauma

Thank you for this course. I could relate to a lot of it for myself & others in my life. This course gave me an understanding of why I am who I am & what I need to do to help myself heal and move forward one step at a time.”

S.L. Align With Your Needs Participant

Bite-sized and informative for the price. This course helped me understand why I procrastinate in relationships as an adult, it helped me explore my childhood and the root cause of this behavior. Thank you!”

J.H. Foundations Participant: Procrastination in Relationships

This was a great addition to talking to a counsellor in helping me navigate this ongoing situation and learning more about myself I wouldn’t have otherwise that I’m sure will reverberate into all areas of my life.”

A.G. Foundations Participant: Boundaries and Anger Course

Appropriate. A great introduction to the topic of emotional neglect. Making me aware of its impact was most helpful.”

P.C. Foundations Participant: Childhood Emotional Neglect

This is a straightforward course that gets right to the point. It is helpful to make the connection between my behavior and its origins. The self work questions and journal prompts are meaningful & I found them easy to do.”

L.C. Foundations Participant: Boundaries 101

Great compliment to what I’ve been working towards for over 10 years. When you think you’ve done all you can there always seems to be more!”

A.G. Foundations Participant: Quieting the Inner Critic

First course I have done. Very thought-provoking. You definitely need a quiet private spot to do these courses.”

C.P. Foundations Participant: Quieting the Inner Critic

A really good insight into myself and the process of boundaries with a narcissist.”

C.L. Foundations Participant: Boundaries with Narcissistic or Emotionally Immature People

Well put-together. Videos with handouts are very informative.”

C.B. Align With Your Needs Participant

Foundations course bundles.

$60 CAD

Save over 70% when you purchase all 7 Procrastination + Complex Trauma courses together.

Includes courses on Procrastination and: Work, Creative Dreams, Self-Care, Relationships, Financial Worry, Hoarding, and Healing.

$50 CAD

Save over 70% when you purchase all 6 Boundaries + Complex Trauma courses together.

Includes courses on Boundaries and:
What They Are and Why They Matter, People-Pleasing, Anger, Saying No Without Guilt, With Yourself, and Relationships.

$45 CAD

Save over 62% when you purchase all Christmas + Complex Trauma courses together.

Includes holiday-themed courses on: Setting Boundaries with Family, Navigating Triggers, Resting and Recovering, and Thinking Differently About Gifts.

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